23.3.09

Dead Like Ants: Make Rocket Go Now

Dead Like Ants is a low-fi, fairy tale-ish game for an Interactive Fiction (i.e. text game) environment competition. Explore your surroundings, meet strange new people, try to stand-out from your thousands of identical sisters... And perhaps at the end of it all, you'll grow some wings.

-If you have Windows, you may prefer to download the zipped executable. Just click the link above, unzip the download and double click the application.

-Alternatively, if you're a seasoned IF player, or you're using Linux or a Mac, download the .t3 version. Unzip the file and run it with an interpreter from this page.

-(You might also like to play the competition's only other entry. To my chagrin, this other game seems to be rather good, but you'll need to run it with a Z code interpreter. Before you get too confused, note that some interpreters can run both games. Try Gargoyle for Windows, or Spatterlight for Mac.)

9 comments:

Wow! Is this the game you've been working so hard on? I have no idea how to even download it, let alone play such a game - but it certainly looks and sounds intriguing. Congratulations on finishing, and best of luck on your competition!

Any chance of me getting a look at the source for this? Your design is elegant and I'd particularly like to get a look at your method of restarting with new information each time. Probably just transporting the player to the start room and changing a variable for the altered room...